Press Releases

At an event at the State Capitol today in Denver, Governor Hickenlooper, The Wilderness Society, Conservation Colorado, Sierra Club and other organizations celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act of 1964.

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The following statement is from Phil Hanceford, assistant director for policy and planning for The Wilderness Society, on the recent discovery of an unreported oil spill in Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

“Since 1989, oil spill cleanup techniques that never were very good have progressed negligibly,” said The Wilderness Society’s engineer and arctic program director, Lois Epstein. “Additionally, Shell’s problem-filled drilling and mobilization performance in th

The Wilderness Society strongly opposes H.R. 1459, a bill that would undermine the ability of presidents to use the Antiquities Act to protect public lands that have significant historic, cultural or conservation value. This bill is scheduled for a vote in the House later this week.

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The Wilderness Society’s president, Jamie Williams, responds to President Obama’s signing today of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Conservation and Recreation Act, which protects 32,557 acres along the mainland shore of Lake Michigan.

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The Wilderness Society issued the following statement regarding tomorrow’s scheduled announcement that President Obama will expand the California Coastal National Monument by adding the Point Arena-Stornetta public lands.

On the heels of recent congressional approval of the first wilderness bill in five years, local leaders from southwest Colorado today commended a congressional committee for considering legislation that woul

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The Hermosa Creek Watershed Protection Act (H.R. 1839) is a bipartisan bill introduced by Rep. Scott Tipton (R-Colo.) and Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall, both Democrats. The bill would protect approximately 108,000 acres of the Hermosa Creek watershed north of Durango.

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“We welcome the confirmation of Mike Connor as Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior. Careful stewardship of publicly owned lands and wild areas is essential to clean water, clean air and to the nation’s $646 billion outdoor recreation economy. We look forwar